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By Ron Ewart
April 15, 2015
NewsWithViews.com
GOVERNMENT CAN GET YOU ANYTIME IT WANTS. If a person, group of people, or a government has power over you, that means they can control what you do, or force you to do what you don't want to do. That power comes either by the force of law with corresponding punishments for not obeying the law, or by force of violence using the gun or other weapons that can threaten or take your life, or rob you of your liberty.
The Founders went to great lengths to set up a government system that was based on the rule of law, not rule by force. Overtime, as laws proliferated into millions of laws piled on top of one another, enforcement of all those laws became problematic. As more people broke the laws, many without knowing it, government's response was to increase enforcement.
In a
previous article on laws we wrote: "Every
Time A New Law Is Written"
"By
just sheer numbers, the more laws that are written, the less likely the
entire population will even know about the laws, or understand them, or
know of their consequences or penalties for violation, much less be in
compliance with them. The consequence of too many laws is that huge segments
of the public are totally unaware of their existence. And yet, under the
law, ignorance of the law is not a defense. Then, when the hapless individual
comes face-to-face with the law, it results in anger and frustration for
that individual and a spiraling degradation of freedom and liberty for
all of us."
"Many
laws are written at the insistence of lobbying or special interest groups
with very narrow and purposely hidden agendas. The public never has an
opportunity for real input and society as a whole is not benefited. Partisan
politics often compromises a new law into meaningless, often conflicting
legislation, leaving loopholes over which lawyers can argue over for decades."
"In
the final analysis, extending legislating and law creation to its absurdity,
one arrives at a point where there are so many laws that no one is in
compliance and we end up losing our ability to enforce any of them. We
become in fact, lawless by the very chaos that the policy makers have
created."
UNLESS
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SENDS IN FEDERAL TROOPS!
What
this all boils down to is that the more laws there are and the more people
there are to be controlled by those laws, the greater the need of enforcement
by guns. It is clear that government will never allow the people TO BECOME
LAWLESS. After all, government's role is to keep the peace and restore
order no matter how many liberties the people have to give up.
As the
federal government grew larger and more powerful, it became the logical
repository for the military power needed to control all those millions
of people to make sure they comply with all the millions of laws that
the people know nothing about. They must keep order and control at all
costs. But it must be remembered that local law enforcement is trained
to use minimal force, where the U. S. Military is trained to use maximum,
overwhelming force. That is the undeniable difference and a direct threat
to individual liberty.
The
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (Pub. L. 18 USC P 1385) was supposed
to keep the U. S. Military from enforcing local and federal law, or assisting
local law enforcement in that duty. Well before the Posse Comitatus Act
was passed, Congress passed the Insurrection Act of 1807 (Pub. L.
10 USC 331 thru 335) which was a "set of laws that
govern the ability of the President to deploy U. S. troops on American
soil." Such deployment could only come at the request
of a governor of the state in which an event was taking place requiring
a larger military force. This all changed after Hurricane Katrina where
the Louisiana governor did not request federal troops to restore order.
Congress went ahead and modified the Insurrection Act as follows:
"Section
1076 of the law changed Sec. 333 of the 'Insurrection Act,' and widened
the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States to enforce
the laws. Under this act, the President may also deploy troops as a police
force during a natural disaster, epidemic, serious public health emergency,
terrorist attack, or other condition, when the President determines that
the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order.
The bill also modified Sec. 334 of the Insurrection Act, giving the President
authority to order the dispersal of either insurgents or 'those obstructing
the enforcement of the laws.' The law changed the name of the chapter
from 'Insurrection' to 'Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order.'"
But
ladies and gentlemen, it gets far worse from there. The Department of
Defense (DOD) has inserted itself into the use of U. S. Military force
on American soil and enforcing local law and assisting local law enforcement.
In our research we ran across a 2004 DOD document (republished in 2009)
that spells out in detail that Posse Comitatus is dead and the Insurrection
Act must be expanded. Here are excerpts from that document.
Legal
Authority to Use Federal Troops to Enforce the Law
The
Insurrection Act is the most important legal authority for the President
to authorize the use of federal troops to enforce the law. The Insurrection
Act (there is really no single 'Insurrection Act' per se but this name
has been applied collectively to the four statutes noted below) consists
of four statutes enacted at different times for different reasons that,
when considered as a whole, provide the power that Presidents have used
many times as the legal basis for using troops to enforce the law. The
four sections of the act are as follows:
• Title 10, Section 331 was enacted in 1792 in response to challenges to the taxing power of the federal government. It allows the President, at the request of a governor or state legislature, to put down an insurrection by calling into federal service sufficient militia to "suppress the insurrection."
• Title 10, Section 332 was enacted in 1861 at the outset of the Civil War. It allows the President to use the armed forces to enforce the laws or suppress a rebellion whenever, in his opinion, unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impractical to enforce the laws using the course of judicial proceedings.
• Title 10, Section 333 was enacted in 1869 during the Reconstruction Era. It allows the President to use the armed forces or militia to respond to insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracies that prevent a state government from enforcing the laws.
• Title 10, Section 334 was enacted in 1861. It prescribes that the President shall issue a proclamation calling on insurgents to disperse before using the militia or armed forces to enforce the law.
The
Insurrection Act is the most sweeping authority for the President to authorize
and order the use of the federal troops for domestic operations. The President
may not act on warning or even at the start of an incident, but must wait
until the governor or a state legislature asks for federal assistance.
This tends to discourage advance preparations and movements of troops-although
Presidents have authorized such actions. This tiered approach in which
the federal government acts only after local and state governments have
failed, was workable when the cost of delayed response was acceptable,
but it is inappropriate for the current situation.
This
should scare the pants off you! The older Insurrection Act and
the revisions thereto, have all but repealed Posse Comitatus. The President
can do what he wishes, anytime he wants with federal troops. That is an
awesome power.
We have
placed links to the evolution of the "Insurrection Act" and
the entire above DOD document on our website for your review
at this link. You have to read the whole DOD document if you really
want to understand what is going on.
Why
do you suppose that the U. S. Military has been conducting massive training
operations throughout the U. S., like operation Jade Helm 15 as depicted
in the above image?
It isn't
all training for warfare elsewhere on the planet. It is in fact training
to put down insurrection by disgruntled Americans and to maintain civil
order when local law enforcement can't do the job, pursuant to the detailed
outline in the above referenced DOD document.
It is
no coincidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has put
out lists of potential domestic terrorists that include Christian groups,
militias, patriots and returning military vets. They know what is in your
mind and what you may be planning and they are planning ahead for that
eventuality. It is no accident that the U. S. Military is conducting huge,
multi-state training operations, or building FEMA camps for massive internment.
The
Progressives have been in virtual control of America for over 100 years.
They intend to remain in control, even if they can't do it by votes. They
have taken over the schools, academia, government institutions, the news
media and they will maintain their control by force of arms if patriots
(conservatives) even so much as hint at challenging their authority. It's
been coming for a long time. It is the final evolution of a liberal, socialist,
ideologically driven dictatorship.
For
those in our reading audience who think that a group of armed militia
can stand up against the full force and fury of the U. S. Military, they
had better think again. If we are going to change the course that
America is now on, it will have to be by peaceful means.
The
only way insurrection or uprising by Americans can win against the U.
S. Military is the organization of millions of armed citizens with seasoned
leadership, command and control and extensive training, who will put everything
on the line to challenge the final militarization of America by federal
forces. And they had better hope that the federal troops don't shoot to
kill, because those federal forces are also made up of Americans. If civilian
Americans are pitted against federal troop Americans in a shooting war,
the U. S. Constitution will be annulled and martial law will be declared.
We can almost guarantee that what comes out of that shooting war between
Americans and Americans will not be a Constitutional Republic.
We are
just as disturbed by Operation Jade Helm 15 as are many other Americans.
Consequently, we have filed a formal FOIA request with the Department
of Defense, asking some very specific questions about this operation and
demanding specific documents. You will find a link to a PDF version of
our FOIA request on our website at
this link. We will publish responses to the FOIA request in later
articles ….. if any.
Please
understand that this FOIA request could put a target on our back and put
us at considerable risk for having the audacity to challenge them personally.
They are already monitoring us and have been for several years. We know
just by observing the statistics on our website.
Why
do we do this ladies and gentlemen? Because we strongly believe in preserving,
protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States and the
individual liberty it secures. It could be considered treason that our
president and all other public office holders and bureaucrats don't do
the same. It is a travesty that millions of Americans won't join us, or
others, in this effort. Their silence could be America's undoing.
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© 2015 Ron Ewart —
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly column, "In Defense of Rural America", is the President of the National Association of Rural Landowners, (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State, an advocate and consultant for urban and rural landowners. He can be reached for comment at info@narlo.org.
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